Because motherhood has made me a nerd...

This video was going around the geekosphere a few weeks ago, but it's appropriate today, since they've officially hit the switch on the Large Hadron Collider. I understand (because I have to be told) that the science in the rap is good for anyone who wants to try and understand what it is exactly that the LHC does.




The site that answers the question, "Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?" has been getting all the play, but the live-blogging of the opening events at Cosmic Variance is more informative.

In other nerd news, Bad Astronomer Phil Plait put out a great digest of Barack Obama's science policy that I think you should read. This is one critical area that Hillary Clinton covered well during the primaries, that I felt Obama did not. I'm happy to see that he's adopted most of what I liked about her platform, and then some. Yay!

P.S. Yo, America - let's call a moratorium on thinking about, discussing or otherwise considering animals wearing make-up, okay? All of these euphemisms are making the presidential election seem like a Fellini film.

P.P.S. John McCain, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I mean, really.